Freestyle Series: Key Lime Sour
The Collingwood Brewery
- From:
- The Collingwood Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 4.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 19, 2022
- Added:
- May 23, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GingerFinn from Canada (ON)
3.31/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.31/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pretty good sour, different from other sours I have had. This is a witbier with key lime puree added to it. It's pleasantly sour, and has a good lime flavour, but too much pithy bitterness on the finish.
Jan 04, 2022
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.64/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.64/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated May 17 2021 and served slightly chilled.
Pours hazy and effervescent, its body a golden apricot colour crowned with one finger of foamy, fizzy white head that vanishes within a minute or so. A thin collar and filmy cap stick around afterwards, but there's nothing else of note - looks like your typical kettle sour. It smells mostly of lime yogurt, with minor accents of lime zest, wheat husk and lemony lacto character.
A very basic but competent kettle sour - it tastes of gritty, wheaty grains and doughy sweetness overlain by lactic acidity, lemon, coriander and key lime. It's tart for the most part, but you do get a nice hint of spicy lime zestiness and coriander at the finish, which dissipates into the aftertaste. Light in body, with zippy, aggressive carbonation that remains prickly and crisp throughout the course of the glass - probably the best aspect of this sour, as it ensures a drinkable, refreshing experience, even though the flavours/aromas may not be all that and a bag of chips.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B grade. Collingwood's Key Lime Sour had a slight leg up on the competition going into this, because I enjoy pretty much anything that tastes like lime. That being said, this one just didn't manage to impress me much, if at all - honestly, the coriander might be its saving grace: it's a subtle role, but without that added spicy, witbier-like aspect, this would be nothing more than a totally bare bones lime-flavoured lacto sour. I'd say that this is worth a chance if you enjoy fruited sours - citrus or lime ones in particular - but don't expect anything mind blowing.
Aug 08, 2021Pours hazy and effervescent, its body a golden apricot colour crowned with one finger of foamy, fizzy white head that vanishes within a minute or so. A thin collar and filmy cap stick around afterwards, but there's nothing else of note - looks like your typical kettle sour. It smells mostly of lime yogurt, with minor accents of lime zest, wheat husk and lemony lacto character.
A very basic but competent kettle sour - it tastes of gritty, wheaty grains and doughy sweetness overlain by lactic acidity, lemon, coriander and key lime. It's tart for the most part, but you do get a nice hint of spicy lime zestiness and coriander at the finish, which dissipates into the aftertaste. Light in body, with zippy, aggressive carbonation that remains prickly and crisp throughout the course of the glass - probably the best aspect of this sour, as it ensures a drinkable, refreshing experience, even though the flavours/aromas may not be all that and a bag of chips.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B grade. Collingwood's Key Lime Sour had a slight leg up on the competition going into this, because I enjoy pretty much anything that tastes like lime. That being said, this one just didn't manage to impress me much, if at all - honestly, the coriander might be its saving grace: it's a subtle role, but without that added spicy, witbier-like aspect, this would be nothing more than a totally bare bones lime-flavoured lacto sour. I'd say that this is worth a chance if you enjoy fruited sours - citrus or lime ones in particular - but don't expect anything mind blowing.
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